Huddleston Hall

HUDDLESTON WITH NEWTHORPE LAITH STAID LANE SE 43 SE (south side) 6/12 Huddleston Hall 4.7.52 II* GV Manor house. Late C16. For the Hungate family. Huddleston limestone coursed squared stone with brick upper sections of stacks and stone slate roof. H-shaped on plan. 2 storeys with attics and with cellar to left, single-bay wings with single-bay centre. Plinth. Quoins. Centre has 2 Tudor-arched entrances with quoined and chamfered jambs, that to left now partly-blocked, that to right with studded 5-long-panel door. Between these a 5-light mullion and transom window within double-chamfered surround. First-floor band continues across wings. Similar window to first floor under hood-mould. Gable to centre contains 3-light mullion window. Wings have 3-light mullion and transom windows with partly-blocked 3-light mullion windows to gables. 2-light mullion and transom windows to inner returns. Windows mainly have leaded diamond panes. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping. Massive stack to centre rear and to left side with side and rear end stacks to wings. Further mullion windows, some with transoms to other elevations. Interior: has dog-leg, closed-string service staircase with remains of large, turned balusters. Reputed to have contemporary main staircase with similar balusters now boarded in. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p276. Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, p 71. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal Vol XXI, p 202.

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